We study the performance of the so called Made in Italy agri-food exports over the last fifteen years, merging the strand of analysis that estimated price and demand elasticities with that considering more explicitly the role of product quality. We proceed in three steps. First, we estimate the...

Bangladesh began implementing trade-reform policies in the mid 1980s, leading to a gradual change in its anti-export-policy. Since then the share of exports in her GDP has been rising steadily with the economy growing at about 5 percent per annum. This growth is associated with structural change...

The Mid-Sized Firms (Msfs) topic has grown significantly in recentyears in Italy, for the outstanding performance in foreign markets ofthis kind of firm. In this respect some evidences are stated but at thesame time there are several thesis disputing them and leading to fieldverification of the...

Il confronto con un consumo sempre più attento ed esigente da una parte e con una concorrenza sempre più internazionale e aggressiva dall’altra spingono gli operatori del comparto vitivinicolo, soprattutto negli ultimi anni, a fronteggiare situazioni di mercato difficili e anomale. Essendo...

The interest towards the role of user communities in innovation has grown among scholars and practitioners. Research has explored the role of communities in high-tech and medium-tech industries with a focus on innovation in the functional dimension of products. Less attention has been devoted to...

Nel saggio si affronta la questione della rispecializzazione produttiva delle imprese italiane. Tramite un’accurata analisi dei Censimenti Industriali 1991-2001 si vuole appurare se nei distretti industriali dei quattro comparti chiave del made in Italy vi sia stato uno spostamento di addetti...

Con la crescente importanza delle strategie di internazionalizzazione delle imprese, è anche aumentata negli ultimi anni l’attenzione degli studiosi di management e marketing al così detto "Country of Origin Effect". La dialettica tra globalizzazione dei mercati e ruolo dei territori locali...

The paper analyses the Made in Italy effect on Chinese consumerbuying behavior regarding three specific product categories: wine,shoes and ceramic tiles. A research model aimed at testing the multidimensional dimensions featuring Country of Origin (Coo) - overall Country Image (Ci), Product...

The gaps in the export performance between Italian industry and its main competitors have (re)focused attention on the concept of "bazaar economy". In the specific case of Italy, the hypothesis of an economic model such as that of the bazaar economy would translate into significant impacts in...

Nonostante la diffusione del web 2.0 abbia alimentato grandi aspettative, la sua adozione da parte delle imprese del made in Italy è ancora ridotta. Gli autori ritengono che questa distanza sia dovuta alla natura specifica degli spazi di comunicazione in rete. L’analisi di quattro casi...